Comments on: Using Java XML API http://blog.webscale.co.in/?p=51 Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:52:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Zashkaser http://blog.webscale.co.in/?p=51&cpage=1#comment-101 Zashkaser Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:28:18 +0000 http://pitfalls.wordpress.com/?p=51#comment-101 Fantastic news! :) Fantastic news! :)

]]> By: fazalgupta http://blog.webscale.co.in/?p=51&cpage=1#comment-100 fazalgupta Thu, 06 Nov 2008 06:52:25 +0000 http://pitfalls.wordpress.com/?p=51#comment-100 One interesting thing i found with html output method was the issue with self closing tags. E.g. for a tag like which is a self closing tag, trying to generate the HTML String using html output method leaves such tags open breaking the actual well formed structure. I am not sure if this is a reported bug in Xalan but I am still figuring out why this happens. Also as such Outputkeys Class the method parameter documentation states that xhtml can be used as a method if implemented by spefic providers. Following is the java doc Other non-namespaced values may be used, such as "xhtml", but, if accepted, the handling of such values is implementation defined. If any of the method values are not accepted and are not namespace qualified, then {@link javax.xml.transform.Transformer#setOutputProperty} or {@link javax.xml.transform.Transformer#setOutputProperties} will throw a {@link java.lang.IllegalArgumentException}. But when I tried this with Xalan, the xhtml output method though not supported (checked by debugging in the code), it never throws an exception.. I think the people implementing XML APIs need to become more consistent to make life easier for people like us. In this context comment given by Christopher Sahnwaldt is relevant as we may need to make well formed the html string generated. One interesting thing i found with html output method was the issue with self closing tags. E.g. for a tag like which is a self closing tag, trying to generate the HTML String using html output method leaves such tags open breaking the actual well formed structure. I am not sure if this is a reported bug in Xalan but I am still figuring out why this happens.

Also as such Outputkeys Class the method parameter documentation states that xhtml can be used as a method if implemented by spefic providers. Following is the java doc

Other non-namespaced values may be used, such as “xhtml”, but, if accepted, the handling of such values is implementation defined. If any of the method values are not accepted and are not namespace qualified, then {@link javax.xml.transform.Transformer#setOutputProperty}
or {@link javax.xml.transform.Transformer#setOutputProperties} will
throw a {@link java.lang.IllegalArgumentException}.

But when I tried this with Xalan, the xhtml output method though not supported (checked by debugging in the code), it never throws an exception..

I think the people implementing XML APIs need to become more consistent to make life easier for people like us.

In this context comment given by Christopher Sahnwaldt is relevant as we may need to make well formed the html string generated.

]]> By: Christopher Sahnwaldt http://blog.webscale.co.in/?p=51&cpage=1#comment-99 Christopher Sahnwaldt Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:01:11 +0000 http://pitfalls.wordpress.com/?p=51#comment-99 To parse HTML that may not be well-formed XML, try http://htmlcleaner.sourceforge.net To parse HTML that may not be well-formed XML, try http://htmlcleaner.sourceforge.net

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